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China reports three new H7N9 bird flu deaths
Feb 04, 2014 (AFP)
Three Chinese people have died of the H7N9 bird flu, the state news agency Xinhua said on Tuesday, adding to a spike in cases this year. Two men, ages 76 and 52...
Uganda plans drug boost for AIDS fight
Jan 30, 2014 (AFP)
Uganda's government is planning to double expenditure on anti-retroviral drugs in an effort to reverse a worsening trend in HIV infections, a senior health offi...
Research uncovers historical rise, fall and re-emergence of plague strains
Jan 30, 2014 (SPX)
One branch of a deadly pathogen's family tree may have ended centuries ago, but from its ancient traces researchers can read a lineage with links to the modern ...
Cause of devastating pandemic revealed
Jan 29, 2014 (SPX)
An international team of scientists has discovered that two of the world's most devastating plagues - the plague of Justinian and the Black Death, each responsi...
Hong Kong reports third H7N9 death
Jan 29, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong Wednesday reported its third death from H7N9 bird flu -- an elderly man who had visited mainland China -- a day after authorities culled 22,000 birds ...
Hong Kong chicken slaughter begins after H7N9 found
Jan 28, 2014 (AFP)
Hong Kong began a mass cull of 20,000 chickens on Tuesday after the deadly H7N9 bird flu virus was discovered in poultry imported from mainland China, authoriti...
China's human H7N9 bird flu cases pass 100 in January
Jan 28, 2014 (AFP)
The number of human cases of H7N9 bird flu in China this month has passed 100, according to an AFP tally, as the worst-hit province ordered live poultry markets...
South Korea orders bird flu lockdown
Jan 27, 2014 (AFP)
South Korea imposed Monday a 12-hour lockdown on poultry farms in three provinces to curb a spreading bird flu outbreak, banning the movement of animals, people...
China announces H7N9 bird flu deaths: Xinhua
Jan 27, 2014 (AFP)
Twelve people have been killed by H7N9 bird flu in a single Chinese province this month, state media reported on Monday, as infections from the virus see a seas...
Gold nanoparticles help to develop a new method for tracking viruses
Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)
Researchers at the Nanoscience Center (NSC) of University of Jyvaskyla in Finland have developed a novel method to study enterovirus structures and their functi...
Nigeria, Pakistan could delay polio-free goal: Gates
Jan 22, 2014 (AFP)
Billionaire software baron turned philanthropist Bill Gates has warned that violence in Nigeria and Pakistan could set back his goal of eradicating polio by 201...
Typhoid Fever - A race against time
Jan 22, 2014 (SPX)
The life-threatening disease typhoid fever results from the ongoing battle between the bacterial pathogen Salmonella and the immune cells of the body. Prof. Dir...
Shanghai reports two deaths in China bird flu outbreak
Jan 20, 2014 (AFP)
Two people have died from the H7N9 strain of bird flu in China's commercial hub Shanghai, including a medical doctor, the local government said Monday, the city...
AIDS infections down by a third in S.Africa: UNAIDS
Jan 17, 2014 (AFP)
New cases of HIV and AIDS fell sharply in South Africa since ten years ago, a testimony to successful treatment, according to a report by the UN Aids body relea...
China reports new H7N9 bird flu death
Jan 17, 2014 (AFP)
China has reported a new death from the H7N9 bird flu virus, state media said Friday, bringing the toll this year to at least four as the disease returns follow...
New H7N9 bird flu deaths reported in China: state media
Jan 14, 2014 (AFP)
China has reported two new deaths from the H7N9 bird flu virus, state media said, as the disease returns following an outbreak last year. A 75-year-old patient,...
Swine flu kills two men in Spain
Jan 14, 2014 (AFP)
Two men have died of swine flu in northern Spain, where an outbreak of the H1N1 virus has left over 40 people in hospital, officials said Tuesday. Laboratory te...
Hong Kong reports second H7N9 death
Jan 13, 2014 (AFP)
A Hong Kong man infected with the deadly H7N9 bird flu died late Monday, less than a week after he was confirmed to be infected with the deadly virus, authoriti...
Canada reports first H5N1 bird flu death in North America
Jan 09, 2014 (AFP)
Canada announced Wednesday the first H5N1 avian flu death in North America, of a patient who had just returned from China, and said it was urgently contacting a...
China reports first H7N9 bird flu death this year
Jan 08, 2014 (AFP)
China has reported its first death from the H7N9 bird flu virus in 2014 after a significant drop-off in fatalities following an outbreak last year. A patient in...
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